There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
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It’s a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself.
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In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
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I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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